The studio went under in 1984 (after which for a year Topcraft did some outsourcing for other Japanese studios and Adventures of the Little Koala, after that the studio went out of business in 1985 of which Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata bought the company after it went out of business and turned the company into Studio Ghibli) when Miyazaki took 70% of its staff (alongside Toru Hara) and co-founded Studio Ghibli after Nausicaa came out. After that, 10% left Topcraft when the studio got worse. They included Hideaki Anno, when he and others founded Studio Gainax. The remaining 20% went to work for Pacific Animation Corp. to produce Rankin/Bass Productions' ThunderCats and SilverHawks until Disney bought that studio in 1988. And later became Motoyoshi Tokunaga'sWalt Disney Animation Japan. In any event, Topcraft will forever be remembered as a footnote in the history of animation and for Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa.

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